Mohali villages High Court warns developers, government officials of action The building blocks of Mohali

BY MUKESH RANJAN Intending to further increase its political stock among the rural masses, the government is considering hiking allocations to the schemes which are being implemented at the village level.

Hooda promises to allocate Rs.10 lakh each for all the villages in the region Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday announced upgradation of Indri tehsil as a sub-division and promised to allocate Rs.10 lakh each for all the 164 villages in the region. The announcements were made at a "thanksgiving rally' in Indri, 150 km from Delhi. The rally was organised by Congress workers as a gesture of gratitude to the electorate of Indri constituency who voted for the party's candidate Bhim Sain Mehta in the Haryana Assembly by-election on May 22. A benchmark

About 708 remote villages and hamlets have been electrified in the north-eastern States so far under the Remote Village Electrification (RVE) programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, with about 1,167 projects under implementation in villages/hamlets, according to a PIB press release.

Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Rustam Singh laid foundation of three roads to be constructed at a cost of Rs five crore under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in Morena district, the other day. On this occasion, he reiterated the government's commitment saying that every village will be connected with the main road and not even a single village would be left without road communication facility.

Calangute Front for Responsible Tourism has resolved to oppose mega projects in the village. On the call given by the Calangute Front for Responsible Tourism, people of all walks of life assembled at St Alex Church compound on Monday, to show their solidarity for the meet.

Reaping a golden harvest for the BJP in Karnataka, B S Yeddyurappa gave wings to a long cherished dream

The concept of "global village' refers to the process of transforming the whole world into a small village by integrating different nations. It aimed at making a country economically, technologically sophisticated and socially cohesive and integrated. In India, the concept of "global village' is getting widespread popularity with the introduction of the globalisation process in 1990's. By opening and liberalising the Indian economy, globalisation has aimed at integrating the Indian economy with the world economy.

Perched on Killa Hill, Tobakla, a remote tribal hamlet in Tripura's South district, now shines in the dark with a non-conventional solar power plant supplying energy under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vaidyutikaran Yojana. A septuagenarian, Bikram Singh Jamatiya is a delighted man today. "My village is remote which can be approached only on foot. We lived in darkness at night. Now it is different,' he told a group of visiting journalists. "Earlier, we saw electric lights only when we went to Udaipur, the district town, which is about 25 km from the village,' he said.

Development of villages of the State is imperative for overall progress and prosperity of the State. Saying this at a peasants' rally at Chowkidinghi play ground here today, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said, keeping this in mind, the State Government accorded priority on village development.

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